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No matter who you are or what you do for a living, there is a web site, guild, club, or union for people of your profession. Societies offer specialized professionals the opportunity to get together, exchange ideas and stories, advocate for their interests, and keep up to date on the latest technical practices. There is a website for professional accountants, an association for family dentists, even a union for hairstylists, so it will come as no surprise to you that there is a website regarding the world of heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning.

Living in the North America as we do, we experience a lot of extreme weather variations. During the winter it's not unusual to see enough snow that school and work is cancelled and during the summer there are days when the risk of heat exhaustion is high, especially for kids and pets. Because of this we have a particular need for heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning. Without them our civilization could not function well, and for keeping these things running, we have the heating and air conditioning professionals to thank.

Though you may have the impression that this website is a group made up of practitioners of three different technical disciplines, in fact most heating technicians work on refrigeration and air conditioning as well. All three areas are directly related, as they all deal with taking heat and moving it from one place to another. Heating transfers heat from the furnace to the home, while refrigeration removes it from the area around your stored foods and air conditioning removes it from the air inside the machine, which blows the cooled air into your room and the warm back outside.

Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning is a highly technical field. Many people think that repair people aren't very well educated, but this isn't the case at all. Heating and Refrigeration techs must have an extensive knowledge of the science of heating and cooling as well as a solid understanding of how the machine functions in order to troubleshoot and install the systems. In fact, the handbook for practitioners of the trade published by the Society for Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning is four volumes long.

If you're looking for any sort of information that touches on heating, refrigeration, or air conditioning, such as the science behind hvac machines, how to get a career in the field, or a history of the society that supports insulating forms, you have come to the right place. We have an extensive store of articles on heating, refrigeration, and air conditioning as well as a history and outline of the duties of their international technical society. To get started, just use the navigation bar at the top of the page to find something that piques your interest.